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William Corkine

Title: Each Love Grace - The Second Booke of Ayres 1612

Label: Nimbus Alliance

Cat No:NI6173
Format:CD

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CANTAR ALLA VIOLA, the art of accompanying the voice with the viola da gamba, is the largely-forgotten technique of using a bowed instrument to playpolyphony and harmony as an accompaniment to the voice. The rediscovery of these methods inspired Nadine Balbeisi, soprano, and Fernando Marín, violada gamba, to create their duo of the same name. Detailed descriptions of the practice of this delicate manner of accompanying the voice are found insources such as “Regola Rubertina” by Sylvestro Ganassi (1542) and in “Il libro del cortegliano” by Baldassare Castiglione, Venezia (1528). As suggestedby Ganassi’s instructions, Fernando Marín adapts madrigals and songs from the Renaissance and early Baroque for the voice and viol.

The duo researches and makes use of the different kinds of violas da gamba used to accompany the voice, such as the Spanish Vihuela de arco, the bowed version of the Vihuela de mano (plucked), and the English Lyra-viol. Both have been reproduced following the shapes and dimensions as well as building techniques of original instruments. Historical bows and strings arejust as carefully researched and selected. The harmonies of the instruments are sustained by using a special bowing technique which creates a sound thatmixes well with the human voice.

Track Listing for Each Love Grace - The Second Booke of Ayres 1612
1 Prelude (1) (Lyra-viol) 1:39
2 Shall a smile 2:14
3 Fly swift my thoughts 1:23
4 Pavin (Lyra-viol) (2nd tuning) 5:14
5 Downe, downe proud minde 3:44
6 Away, away 1:46
7 Mounsiers Almaine (Lyra-viol) 3:30
8 Prelude (2) (Lyra-viol) 0:33
9 Goe heavy thoughts 4:37
10 Almaine (Lyra-viol) (2nd tuning) 4:59
11 Coranto (2) 1:26
12 Two Lovers sat lamenting 3:58
13 T’is true, t’is day 4:10
14 If my Complaints (Lyra-viol) 3:08
15 Coranto (1) 1:29
16 Man like a Prophet of ensuing yeeres 2:41
17 Shall I be with joyes deceived? 1:11
18 Each lovely grace 2:50
19 The Punckes delight (Lyra-viol) 1:44
20 Beware faire Maides 5:39
21 Come live with me and be my Love (Lyra-viol) 3:54
22 My deerest Mistrisse 0:54
23 Walsingham (Lyra-viol) 2:45
24 As by a fountaine chast Diana sate 1:15

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Each Love Grace - The Second Booke of Ayres 1612